Deborah Shaw (Aurora Engine) is a composer for film, documentary and visual media, creating immersive scores that blend the boundaries between music and landscape. Her work combines harp, piano and voice with synths and electronics and a rich palette of natural and industrial field recordings she captures herself. These collected sounds usually gathered from Scotland, Co. Durham / Tyneside have become part of the fabric of her compositions. The result is music that is cinematic, atmospheric, at times otherworldly - and emotionally resonant moving between the intimate and ethereal, minimalist and epic.
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Laura Meek 2025
Deborah has composed for documentaries and screen projects including ‘Down The Rabbit Hole (Spiral Out Productions) now on Amazon Prime, Scottish Council / Scottish Ancestry (Cinetopia), Film Hub Midlands, Hot Aches Productions, BFI Film Feels Series and Mint Chinese Film Festival.
Whether licensing music from her existing catalogue or creating a bespoke score, Deborah works directly with filmmakers to craft distinctive sonic worlds that enrich story, emotion and place. She regularly works with instrumentalists giving orchestral textures to her work.
‘DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE’ My Mike Webster - Now Available on AMAZON PRIME
HARP / PIANO /SYNTH